Pramod Koshy Associate Professor
areas of expertise
- Development of catalytic films and nanoparticles for water and air purification
- Utilisation of waste materials in ceramic and metallurgical applications
- Understanding coke degradation mechanisms in blast furnace operations
- Development of bioceramic coatings and nanoparticles for cell therapies and implants
education
- Ph.D. (Materials Science and Engineering), UNSW, 2009
- M.Tech. (Materials Science and Technology), NIT-Calicut, India, 2004
- B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering), University of Kerala, India, 2002
Associate Professor Koshy’s primary research foci is on the development of advanced materials for environmental and energy applications, particularly the transformation of waste materials/industrial by-products into value-added materials for economical and industrially-viable high-performance applications.
He is the co-leader of the NEMCAT (Novel Engineered Materials for Conventional and Applied Technologies) group in the School of Materials Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney which focusses on understanding the correlations between structure-properties for different conventional and advanced materials. He also leads the Vecor-UNSW collaborative research program for materials for energy and environmental applications through the Australian Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy.
In 2024, Associate Professor Koshy was awarded an Australian Research Council 4 year mid-career industry fellowship to undertake research for Vecor’s ceramics project to enable high volume manufacture using a novel nanotechnology of coated fly ash particles to simulate titania as paint pigment/filler. He has also won the Australian Citation award, the Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award and the Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Teaching Award.
Associate Professor Koshy has co-authored >150 publications, 4 international patents, supervised over 40 HDR (18 current) and 99 Honours students (10 current) to completion.
Publications
See Google Scholar.
Publication Metrics
Grants
No. | Grants | Role | Timeframe | Funding |
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1 | ARC Industry Mid-Career Fellowship Optically Tunable Functional Nano-Coatings of Fly Ash-Based Ceramics |
Sole CI | 2024 – 2028 | 1,077,650 450,092 (Vecor) |
2 | ARENA Blast Furnace Innovations: Integrating New Injections and Burdens for Sustainable, Low-Carbon Ironmaking Project |
Co-CI | 2024 – 2028 | 3,800,000 (total) |
3 | ARC Linkage Electrodeposited Cathodes with Tunable Stoichiometry for Alkaline Batteries |
Lead CI | 2024 – 2027 | 508,018 465,794 (Vecor) |
4 | Joint UNSW-Vecor Trailblazer Project Nanostructured Materials (Universal Precursor Materials and Seawater Splitting) and Transformation of Fly Ash (Ceramic Filler) |
Lead CI | 2023 – 2027 | 4,038,348 (Vecor) 1,522,156 |
5 | ACARP Biochar-Coke Integration for Improved Coke Strength and Performance |
Lead CI | 2024 – 2025 | 244,400 |
6 | UON/BHP Characterisation and Quality Testing of Metallurgical Cokes/Coal |
Lead CI | 2023 – 2025 | 147,200 |
7 | Brickworks Optimisation of Raw Materials In Brickmaking |
Lead CI | 2022 – Present | 10,000 |
8 | CSIRO Clayton Surface and Structural Characterisation of Crystal Surfaces |
Lead CI | 2024 | 6,000 |
9 | CSIRO Lindfield Characterisation of Surfaces and Advanced Thin Films |
Lead CI | 2022 – 2023 | 74,259 |
10 | POSCO Combustion Characteristics of High Volatile Coal for BF Ironmaking |
Lead CI | 2022 – 2023 | 36,360 |
11 | Innovations Connections RCS Air Quantum Dot Nanofluid Development |
Joint CI | 2022 – 2023 | 97,889 |
12 | RCS Air Preliminary Quantum Dot Nanofluid Development |
Co-CI | 2022 | 20,000 |
Prior to Promotion to Level D | ||||
13 | ACARP Design of Cokes from Biomass-Coal Blends for Blast Furnace Ironmaking: Scoping Study |
Lead CI | 2022 – 2023 | 181,700 |
14 | ACARP Effect of Coke Properties on High-Temperature Strength and Hot Metal Reactions under Blast Furnace Conditions |
Lead CI | 2020 – 2022 | 369,700 |
15 | ARC LP New Ceramic: Fully Stabilised Monoclinic ZrO₂ |
Research Fellow | 2020 – 2023 | 406,100 300,000 (Vecor) |
16 | ARC LP Aligned Mullite Fibres for Metal Matrix Composites |
Co-CI | 2017 – 2020 | 340,000 195,000 (TopFibre) |
17 | ACARP Blend Characteristics in High-Temperature Mechanisms in Cokes |
Lead CI | 2019 – 2021 | 309,800 |
18 | ACARP In Situ High Temperature Strengths of Low CSR Cokes |
Lead CI | 2018 – 2019 | 86,000 |
19 | BHP-UON Effect of Microalgae Blending in Cokemaking |
Lead CI | 2022 | 33,081 |
20 | Map-to-Mine Assessment of Mineral Resource Quality for Industries |
Co-CI | 2021 – 2022 | 53,420 |
21 | Brickworks Optimisation of Raw Materials In Brickmaking |
Lead CI | 2019 – 2022 | 33,688 |
22 | Allegra Orthopaedics Optimisation of Biomedical Products |
Joint CI | 2018 – 2023 | 69,124 |
23 | POSCO Survey of Coal Study Trends and Property Database |
Lead CI | 2020 – 2021 | 96,114 |
24 | BHP Effect of Gasification Conditions on Coke Reduction |
Lead CI | 2020 – 2021 | 69,449 |
25 | POSCO Characterisation of Anthracite/Thermal Coal Grain Interfaces |
Lead CI | 2018 – 2019 | 76,089 |
26 | Vecor Stabilisation of Zirconia – Scoping Work |
Lead CI | 2020 | 108,042 |
27 | Vecor Ceramic Composite Products from Fly Ash |
Lead CI | 2018 – 2022 | 20,612 |
28 | CSIRO Characterisation of Surfaces and Advanced Thin Films |
Lead CI | 2021 | 17,820 |
Awards
Personal Awards
Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence | UNSW | 2019 |
Australian Citation Award for Teaching Excellence | Australian Govt | 2017 |
Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence | UNSW | 2016 |
Faculty of Science Award for Teaching Excellence | UNSW | 2015 |
Endeavour International Post-Graduate Research Scholarship | UNSW | 2006 – 2008 |
1st Rank: Masters Degree (Materials Science and Technology) | NIT-C, India | 2004 |
1st Rank & University Medal: Bachelor Degree (Mechanical Engineering) | University of Kerala, India | 2002 |
Student Awards
Frederick Zhang | 3rd Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia, Nov 2023, Sydney | 2023 |
Ratan Venkatesan | 4th Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia, Nov 2023, Sydney | 2023 |
Sarra Mourad | 2nd Prize: Poster Presentation | Biomedical Presentation Event, Oct 2023 | 2023 |
Marcus Miljak | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering | 2022 |
Marcus Miljak | 2nd Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia, Nov 2022, Sydney | 2022 |
Jodie Mann | 1st Prize: Poster Presentation | Materials Australia, Nov 2022, Sydney | 2022 |
Vienna Wong | ANSTO FutureNow Scholarship | PhD Scholarship Topup | 2022 |
Aurpa Bhuiyan | AINSE Residential Student Scholarship | PhD Scholarship Topup | 2022 |
Bernadette Pudadera | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering | 2021 |
Jiachen Jiang | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering | 2021 |
Edward Whitelock | 2nd Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia Oct 2021, Sydney | 2021 |
Vienna Wong | 4th Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia Oct 2021, Sydney | 2021 |
Joel Luke Abraham | AINSE Residential Student Scholarship | PhD Scholarship Topup | 2021 |
Thibault de Villenoisy | 1st Prize: Presentation | Materials Engineering Section: Faculty of Science Thesis Presentation | 2021 |
Madi Moar | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering | 2020 |
Joel Luke Abraham | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering | 2020 |
Bernadette Pudadera | 1st Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia 7 Nov 2020, Sydney | 2020 |
Aurpa Bhuiyan | 3rd Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia 7 Nov 2020, Sydney | 2020 |
Vicki Zhong | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering | 2019 |
Alan Cen | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering | 2019 |
Keenan Burrough | University Medal | Bachelor in Materials Engineering | 2019 |
Sophie E. Armstrong | 1st Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia 23 Oct 2019, Sydney | 2019 |
Michelle Yeoh | 1st Prize: Poster Presentation | ANSTO Young Researchers Forum 8 September 2019, Sydney | 2019 |
Sajjad S. Mofarah | 1st Prize: Best Presentation | Intl. Conference of Nanomaterials and Biomaterials, 10-12 December 2018, Barcelona, Spain | 2018 |
Hangjuan Ren | 1st Prize: Best Presentation | ACS Fall Conference, 19-23 August, Boston, MA, USA – Materials for Energy Session | 2018 |
Kochurani K. Johnson | 1st Prize: Poster Presentation | CAMS2018, 26-29 November, Wollongong | 2018 |
Michelle Yeoh | 1st Prize: Poster Presentation | Materials Australia, 5 December 2018, Sydney | 2018 |
Benjamin Fishburn | 2nd Prize: Student Presentation | Materials Australia 6 Dec 2017, Sydney | 2017 |
Zhao Liu | 3rd Prize: Poster Presentation | Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW | 2016 |
Sultan Albarakati | 1st Prize: Poster Presentation | Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW | 2015 |
Wen-Fan Chen | 3rd Prize: Poster Presentation | Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW | 2014 |
Hao Qiu & Wai-Ling Kwong | Best Paper: Nanotechnology | 10th Eco-Energy and Materials Science and Engineering (EMSES2012) 5-8 December 2012, Ubon-Ratchathani, Thailand | 2012 |
Hsin Chen | 2nd Prize: Presentation | 10th Eco-Energy and Materials Science and Engineering (EMSES2012) 5-8 December 2012, Ubon-Ratchathani, Thailand | 2012 |
Teaching
Teaching Awards
- 2019: Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence UNSW
- 2017: Australian Citation Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2016: Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence UNSW
- 2015: Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award
Current Courses
- MATS4005: Functional Materials and Composites (2020 – Present)
- MATS4002: Design with Advanced Ceramics (2014 – Present)
- MATS6003: Presentation Skills (Masters) (2017 – Present)
Laboratory Activity Coordinator
- MATS1101
- MATS1192
- MATS2004
Past Courses
- MATS3004: Polymer Science and Engineering 1 (2014-2019)
- MATS4006: Polymer Science and Engineering 2 (2014-2017)
- MATS2294: Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Ceramics (2012)
- MATS2183: Refractories (2011)
Research Supervision
Supervision Metrics
PhD / Masters
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- Thibault de Villenoisy – MOFs for Novel Catalyst Synthesis (PhD)
- Honghao Li – Porous Silicon for Hydrogen Storage (PhD)
- Yu-Chun Huang – Size Effects of Catalytic BTO (M.Phil)
- Yu-Fu Tseng – Doped Cathodes for LIB (M.Research)
- Sunny Fan – Carbonaceous Materials for Hydrogen Storage (PhD)
- Joel Abraham – Glass Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Storage (PhD)
- Xiaoran Zheng – Nanostructured Materials for Energy (PhD)
- Vienna Wong – Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (PhD)
- Aurpa Bhuiyan – Glass Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Storage (PhD)
- Sharon Sasmita – Porous Silicon for Hydrogen Storage (PhD)
- Marcus Miljak – X-Ray Detection Unit for Lunar Exploration (PhD)
- Kaili Xue – BTO Morphologies for Energy Applications (PhD)
- Saman Mostafapoor – Na-Ion Battery Electodes (PhD)
- Husn Ara Chauhan – Nanoparticle Polymer Functional Composites (PhD)
- Suchen Huang – Novel Catalysts for Chemical Processes (PhD)
- Yueyue Luo – Novel Electrode Materials for Energy Storage (PhD)
- Frederick Zhang – Glass-Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Storage (PhD)
- Huangang Lin – Catalysts for CO2 Conversion (PhD)
- Shahrzad Shaddel
- Junyi Ning
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Masters Coursework
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- Sherie Xue
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Honours
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- Lovina Chen – Electrode Corrosion (Cochlear)
- Liang Xue – Fly Ash Based Composites (VECOR)
- Louise McGuiggan – X-ray Detector Development (CSIRO)
- Fenglin Zhuo – X-ray Detector Development (CSIRO)
- Jess Degeling – Nuclear Waste Storage (ANSTO)
- Ian D’Souza – Battery Cathode Development (VECOR)
- Nathan Phanith – Catalyst Development for HER/OER (VECOR)
- Zijuan Zhang – Nuclear Ceramic Development
- Gerardo Pareja-Delgado – Analysis of Building Products (Brickworks)
- Mohammed Ali – Electrode Corrosion (Cochlear)
- Eleana Fairbairn – Electrode Corrosion (Cochlear)
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Past Higher Degree Students
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- Somyote Kongkarat (PhD) [2011]
- James Dankwah (PhD) [2012]
- Renzhong Zhang (MPhil) [2012]
- Wai-Ling Kwong (PhD) [2014]
- Hao Qiu (M/Phil) [2014]
- Chau-Hyun Pham (PhD) [2014]
- Chung-Pei Lin (M/Res) [2014]
- Cindy Chen (M/Res) [2014*]
- Cindy Wang (M/Phil) [2015]
- Dinh Nguyen (PhD) [2015]
- Jieyu Wang (M/Res) [2016]
- Sultan Al-Barakati (M/Phil) [2016]
- Shaohua Qi (M/Phil) [2016]
- Christine Lin (PhD) [2016]
- Wen-Fan Chen (PhD) [2016]
- Supphatuch Ukritnukun (PhD) [2017]
- Esmaeil Adabifiroozjaei (PhD) [2017]
- Samuel Ho (M/Res) [2018]
- Hsin-Kai Chen (M/Res) [2018]
- Kenny Cheung (PhD) [2018]
- Rashid Mehmood (PhD) [2018]
- Imrana Kabir (PhD) [2018]
- Hangjuan Ren (PhD) [2019]
- Zhao Liu (PhD) [2019]
- Yue Jiang (M/Res) [2019]
- Ghazaleh Bahmanrokh (PhD) [2019]
- Sajjad Mofarah (PhD) [2020]
- Yuwen Xu (M/Phil) [2020]
- Zhiyuan Liu (M/Res) [2020]
- Lutful Amin (PhD) [2020]
- Hongyang Ma (PhD) [2021]
- Mahdi Motamadi (PhD) [2021]
- Xiaoran Zheng (M/Res) [2021]
- Xinchen Dai (M/Res) [2021]
- Zekun Dong (M/Phil) [2021]
- Ayda Khosravanihaghighi (PhD) [2022]
- Zile Ye (M/Phil) [2022]
- Florence Lui (PhD) [2022]
- Kochurani Johnson (PhD) [2022]
- Newton Amaldoss (PhD) [2023]
- Tasmia Zaman (PhD) [2023]
- Hao Zhang (PhD) [2023]
- Yue Jiang (PhD) [2023]
- Gagan Jalandhra (PhD) [2024]
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Past Honours
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- Jonathan Tan (2012) [Shinagawa Refractories Project]
- Chung-Pei Lin (2012)
- Stephen Ngu (2013)
- Holstein Wong (2013)
- Daniel Baxter (2013)
- Ali Chour (2013) [Brickworks Project]
- Kenny Cheung (2013) [Brickworks Project]
- Kylie Pandika (2014)
- Ali Boussi (2014) [Brickworks Project]
- Martin Yoon (2014) [POSCO Project]
- Seok Yong Cho (2014) [POSCO Project]
- Gavin Chan (2014) [Brickworks Project]
- Lowin Chung (2015)
- David Almeida (2015)
- Nathan Doran (2015)
- Aparna Nair (2015)
- Yuan Kai Heo (2015)
- Hsin-Kai Chen (2015)
- Alexander Ho (2016) [Cochlear Project]
- Sarah Pearn (2016)
- Angela Le (2016)
- Hao Zhang (2016)
- Gustad Irani (2016)
- Josh Haley (2017) [Brickworks Project]
- Helen Reilly (2017)
- Benjamin Fishburn (2017) [Brickworks Project]
- Christopher Byrnes (2017)
- Luisa Schreck (2017)
- Kevin Pei (2017) [Cochlear Project]
- Andrew Ham (2017)
- Jason Irawan (2017)
- Gita Naidu (2017)
- James Jovanovski (2017)
- Chris Tan (2017)
- Vicki Zhong (2018) [Cochlear Project]
- Alan Cen (2018)
- Naomi Ho (2018)
- Amanda Chen (2018)
- Simon Qi (2018) [Cochlear Project]
- Chantelle Malacco (2018)
- William Jervis (2018) [Brickworks Project]
- Michelle Yeoh (2018) [Brickworks Project]
- Zile Ye (2018)
- Madi Moar (2019)
- Sophie Armstrong (2019) [Cochlear Project]
- Carrie Zhu (2019) [Cochlear Project]
- Kristin Martinoski (2019)
- Jialuo Ke (2019) [ANSTO Project]
- Benjamin Muffett (2019) [ANSTO Project]
- Vincent Wong (2019) [Brickworks Project]
- Keenan Burrough (2019) [ANSTO Project]
- Corey Vutukuri (2019)
- Liam Olivieri (2019)
- Jim Liu (2019) [Cochlear Project]
- Thibault de Villenoisy (2020) [ANSTO Project]
- Muflih Mandara (2020) [ACARP Project]
- Brenda Leung (2020)
- David Halim (2020) [Brickworks Project]
- Aurpa Bhuiyan (2020) [ANSTO Project]
- Amber Liu (2020)
- Hung-Juei Tseng (2020)
- Tina Majidi (2020) [Cochlear Project]
- Bernadette Pudadera (2020) [Cochlear Project]
- Edward Whitelock (2021) [ANSTO Project]
- Ying Zhang (2021) [MCM Project]
- Jacqualine Huynh (2021)
- Weiyu Gao (2021)
- Kyle Baddack (2021)
- Vienna Wong (2021)
- Jiachen Jiang (2021) [Cochlear Project]
- Lok Wong (2021) [CSIRO Project]
- Ewing Chen (2021) [ANSTO Collaboration Project]
- Clayton Feng (2021) [Cochlear]
- Katherine Firth (2021) [Cochlear]
- Victoria Lam (2021) [Cochlear]
- Daniel Lu (2021)
- Zijun Meng (2021)
- Naman Bansal (2021)
- Justin Wong (2021)
- Kenfond Xuan (2021)
- Marcus Miljak (2022) [CSIRO]
- Calvin Hoang (2022) [Cochlear]
- Jodie Mann (2022) [ANSTO]
- Sherry Chen (2022) [ANSTO]
- Stephanie Mui (2022) [Brickworks]
- Aiden Yap (2022) [Brickworks]
- Timothy Oberg (2022) [Cochlear]
- Nathan Trinh (2022) [Cochlear]
- Victoria-Lee Inthavong (2022) [Cochlear]
- Ryan Campbell (2022)
- John Zheng (2022) [Cochlear]
- Jenny Huang (2022) [ANSTO]
- Ratan Venkatesan (2023) [ANSTO]
- Frederick Zhang (2023) [ANSTO]
- Rebecca Ninan (2023)
- Jonathan Ren (2023) [Brickworks]
- Jeremiah Mullings (2023) [CSIRO]
- David Worton (2023) [Cochlear]
- Benny Xing (2023)
- Sarra Mourad (2023) [ANSTO]
- Elike Atsu (2023) [Cochlear]
- Marcus Wong (2023)
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Past Masters Coursework
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- Nima Kharkaneh (2013)
- Sou Lee (2014)
- Jieyu Wang (2014)
- Xuting Ge (2015)
- Ying Wang (2015)
- Hongyang Ma (2015)
- Lingyun Liu (2016)
- Qiyuan Shi (2017)
- Jiashu Wei (2017)
- Selene de Leon Ibarra (2017)
- Xichao Zhang (2018)
- Yang Hong (2018)
- Yiyan Han (2018)
- Yucheng Wang (2018)
- Dongfang Zhou (2019)
- Xinhong Liu (2019)
- Chenze Li (2019)
- Haoran Ma (2020)
- Xiaotong Liu (2021)
- Ce Yan (2021)
- Quan Liu (2021)
- Dinesh Varma (2022)
- Liting Zhang (2022)
- Suchen Huang (2023)
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